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The Stockholm Bloodbath did not occur on November 10. It began on November 8 and ended on November 9, so the entry is wrong. /Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 09:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Ludde23. I wish I had known about this earlier. Thanks for letting me know. I posted this event on [Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 10] because I thought, after reading the article (and "http://members.tripod.com/Strv102r/stockholm_bloodbath.htm" in the external link section at the end), that the executions began after midnight of Nov. 9th (or, after 0:00 hours on Nov. 10th) and most of the executions took place during the following day (or, during daytime on Nov. 10th). I counted the days from Nov.7th (the evening when Christian called in the elders for a "meeting") onwards myself, but I do not have access to better references. (Googling was no help.) Did I mis-counted the days ? Please be encouraged to fix the dates in the Stockholm Bloodbath article. I would very much appreciate if you can help out with that. For 2007, I (or any admin) can move this anniversary to another day's template to go with the content of the article. Many thanks. --PFHLai 22:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

2012 notes

Latest comment: 12 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Rutgers University (maintenance); American Legion (maintenance)
Omitted: Wilmington Insurrection of 1898; Hope Diamond; ¿Por qué no te callas?
Included: United States Marine Corps (3rd appearance, last in 2010); Sesame Street (6th appearance, last in 2010); SS Edmund Fitzgerald (2nd appearance, last in 2005)
Repeats: Battle of Surabaya (5th consecutive appearance, 5 total); Nadarajah Raviraj (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:27, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

I recommend removing Sesame Street because History of Sesame Street is TFA for Nov. 10. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:20, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Done. —howcheng {chat} 22:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

2013 notes

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (maintenance)
Omitted: United States Marine Corps; Battle of Surabaya; Hope Diamond; SS Edmund Fitzgerald; Nadarajah Raviraj
Included: Siege of Zara (first appearance); Rutgers University (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Henry Morton Stanley/David Livingstone (Stanley: 8th appearance, last in 2010; Livingstone: 4th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Sesame Street (6th appearance, last in 2010); ¿Por qué no te callas? (3rd appearance, last in 2011)

—howcheng {chat} 07:43, 9 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

2014 notes

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Rutgers University; Sesame Street; ¿Por qué no te callas?
Included: 1940 Vrancea earthquake (first appearance); Hope Diamond (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Nadarajah Raviraj (3rd appearance, last in 2012)
Repeats: Siege of Zara (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total); Henry Morton Stanley/David Livingstone (both: 2nd consecutive appearance, Stanley: 9 total, Livingstone: 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 18:57, 9 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

2015 notes

Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Henry Morton Stanley/David Livingstone; Hope Diamond; Nadarajah Raviraj
Included: United States Marine Corps (4th appearance, last in 2012); Battle of Surabaya (6th appearance, last in 2012; 70th anniversary); SS Edmund Fitzgerald (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 40th anniversary)
Repeats: Siege of Zara (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total); 1940 Vrancea earthquake (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 75th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 11:31, 8 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

2016 notes

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Henry Morton Stanley/David Livingstone (Stanley: maintenance)
Omitted: United States Marine Corps; Battle of Surabaya; SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Included: Rutgers University (2nd appearance, last in 2013; 250th anniversary); Hope Diamond (4th appearance, last in 2014); Nadarajah Raviraj (4th appearance, last in 2014; 10th anniversary)
Repeats: Siege of Zara (4th consecutive appearance, 4 total); 1940 Vrancea earthquake (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 19:09, 9 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

2017 notes

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: United States Marine Corps (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379
New articles (unused): Battle of Daecheong
Omitted: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (ineligible—maintenance); Rutgers University (ineligible—maintenance); 1940 Vrancea earthquake; Hope Diamond; Nadarajah Raviraj
Included: Henry Wirz (2nd appearance, last in 2008; rescued from Ineligible); Petar Mladenov (first appearance); ¿Por qué no te callas? (4th appearance, last in 2013); Afzal Khan (general) (first appearance); Paweł Jasienica (first appearance); Leona Woods (first appearance)
Repeats: Siege of Zara (5th consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 03:53, 10 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

2018 notes

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Henry Wirz; Petar Mladenov (ineligible—maintenance); ¿Por qué no te callas?; Afzal Khan (general); Paweł Jasienica; Leona Woods
Included: Wilmington insurrection of 1898 (2nd appearance, last in 2011; rescued from Ineligible); Hope Diamond (5th appearance, last in 2016; 60th anniversary); United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (2nd appearance, last in 2004); Nadarajah Raviraj (5th appearance, last in 2016); Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (first apppearance); Maria Jane Williams (first apppearance); Canaan Banana (first apppearance)
Repeats: Siege of Zara (6th consecutive appearance, 6 total)

—howcheng {chat} 19:16, 10 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

2019 notes

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Omitted: Siege of Zara; Wilmington insurrection of 1898; Hope Diamond; United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (ineligible—maintenance); Nadarajah Raviraj; Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg; Maria Jane Williams; Canaan Banana
Included: Henry Wirz (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Battle of Surabaya (7th appearance, last in 2015); Sesame Street (7th appearance, last in 2013; 50th anniversary); SS Edmund Fitzgerald (3rd appearance, last in 2015); Battle of Daecheong (first appearance); Andrés Manuel del Río (first appearance); Gaetano Bresci (2nd appearance, last in 2006; 150th birthday; previously appeared on July 29); Mary Millar (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:18, 11 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

2020 notes

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Paweł Jasienica (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Arthur Rimbaud
Omitted: Henry Wirz; Sesame Street; SS Edmund Fitzgerald; Battle of Daecheong; Andrés Manuel del Río; Gaetano Bresci (deleted—moved back to normal date); Mary Millar
Included: Siege of Zara (7th appearance, last in 2018); 1940 Vrancea earthquake (4th appearance, last in 2016; 80th anniversary); ¿Por qué no te callas? (5th appearance, last in 2017); Guðrøðr Óláfsson (first appearance); Louis Lingg (first appearance); Neil Gaiman (first appearance; 60th birthday)
Repeats: Battle of Surabaya (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total; 75th anniversary)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Howcheng (talk • contribs) 03:46, 12 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

2021 notes

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Moved to Ineligible: Wilmington insurrection of 1898 (maintenance); Hope Diamond (maintenance)
Omitted: 1940 Vrancea earthquake; Battle of Surabaya; ¿Por qué no te callas?; Guðrøðr Óláfsson; Louis Lingg; Neil Gaiman
Included: Henry Wirz (4th appearance, last in 2019); 1937 Brazilian coup d'état (first appearance); Sesame Street (8th appearance, last in 2019); Daecheong incident (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Isabel de Forz, 8th Countess of Devon (first appearance); Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (first appearance); Ken Kesey (first appearance; 20th anniversary)
Repeats: Siege of Zara (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total)

—howcheng {chat} 21:17, 11 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

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